Translating: A Journey in Time
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abstract
The translation of a text belonging to a culturally distant age is like a journey across time: relying on the guidance of a translator, the new readers can delve into the past and explore a world that otherwise would remain accessible only to a restricted number of experts. Through examples from medieval Germanic texts, the papers collected in this volume offer significant insights into the specific role played by philology in the field of ‘intertemporal translation’, thus casting light on the central function, especially in the current cultural situation, of a discipline that values the ability of ‘reading slowly’ and a respectful approach towards the datum.
Old and Middle High German • Aristocratic Identity • Translation • Translation practice • R • Fornaldarsögur • Kingship • The Wife’s Lament • Genre • Legal translation • Editorial work • Chancey Brewster Tinker • Intertemporal Translation • Landslov • Old English • Verba seniorum • J • Translation Studies • Tolkien • Literal or figurative • Old Norwegian • Theory and practice of translation • William Morris • Old Icelandic literature • John Porter • Courtly Ideology • Ovid’s Metamorphoses • Old Norse • Anglo-Saxon England • Medieval German Literature • Medieval Sweden • Exile • Beowulf • Albrecht von Halberstadt • Áns saga bogsveigis • Law • Hermann of Thuringia • Hwæt-hypotheses • Soul-and-body literature • Rewriting • Translation Theory • Ælfric of Eynsham • Seamus Heaney • Transcodification